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'Eau de Lantana' was Kikuyu - EVIL!!
John Savage wrote:
I love the perfume of lantana on a baking hot mid-summer day. Flowers or crushed leaves, either will do. I wonder can it be bottled? I'd wear it on a dull wintery morning to brighten my day! -- John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) Eeuuwww! There must be some major difference between people's smelling apparatuses, eh John? To *my* dainty little nostrils (in fact, I have a nose like a lo-oo-ong ski jump, but let's not go there...), lantana smells exactly like tomcat piddle! I s'pose *some* might enjoy the aroma of tomcat piddle, (;-) but it does seem odd that something could smell atrocious to some noses yet sweet to others! Yesterday, I drove my Mum to Woy Woy. It seemed the whole, entire area we travelled through was infected with evil-smelling Bursaria! The smell was strong and sickly-sweet and so bad (gives me hayfever) that I had to close the car window! Now *that's* a lot worse than lantana! IMHO. Aside: on the heritage 'White Gates' at Wallsend, they've planted a rambling hedge of purple and white lantana. The colours go perfectly with the pale lavender shades of the fence surrounding the carpark and it never ceases to bring a smile when I drive by! I never thought I'd see the day when I actually *liked* lantana! ;-D Oh, and another aside: I was birdwatching one day at Blackbutt Reserve in N'cle. Back then, there was a much larger lantana problem than there is now and parts of the lower reserve were utterly rotten with it. One day, I stumbled upon a whole slope of Nodding Greenhood Orchids (Pterostylis nutans). Protected as they were by the lantana, they'd been able to proliferate much more than they ordinarily would have and I counted several hundred of them in that single patch! I reckon the most difficult-to-eradicate weed *I've* ever encountered has been Jasmine! Once it takes hold, it takes *years* before you can get rid of it! -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
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'Eau de Lantana' was Kikuyu - EVIL!!
Trish Brown writes:
John Savage wrote: I love the perfume of lantana on a baking hot mid-summer day. Flowers or crushed leaves, either will do. I wonder can it be bottled? I'd wear it on a dull wintery morning to brighten my day! Eeuuwww! There must be some major difference between people's smelling apparatuses, eh John? I like the flowers best of all. Picked a few the other day to keep in my shirt pocket, so I could take them out from time to time. To *my* dainty little nostrils (in fact, I have a nose like a lo-oo-ong ski jump, but let's not go there...), lantana smells exactly like tomcat piddle! Ah, my second favourite! $:-(( Aside: on the heritage 'White Gates' at Wallsend, they've planted a rambling hedge of purple and white lantana. The colours go perfectly with the pale I don't much like the hybrids. They have next to no perfume. I reckon the most difficult-to-eradicate weed *I've* ever encountered has been Jasmine! Once it takes hold, it takes *years* before you can get rid of it! I tackled one that was confined to overgrowing a fence. I sprayed all the foliage on one side with Roundup, and the kill was 100%. So satisfying to see a hedge of brown crispy leaves replace one of green and pink! The scent of a jasmine hedge right outside the kitchen is too overpowering even for me. The trouble comes when the jasmine has been allowed to spread over the ground, so that there are hundreds of small vines coming up everywhere. Get yourself a sheep, or else borrow one, they just love jasmine. -- John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
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'Eau de Lantana' was Kikuyu - EVIL!!
Interestingly............. We supplied the Wallsend Gates lantana
plants.............under protest lol "John Savage" wrote in message om... Trish Brown writes: John Savage wrote: I love the perfume of lantana on a baking hot mid-summer day. Flowers or crushed leaves, either will do. I wonder can it be bottled? I'd wear it on a dull wintery morning to brighten my day! Eeuuwww! There must be some major difference between people's smelling apparatuses, eh John? I like the flowers best of all. Picked a few the other day to keep in my shirt pocket, so I could take them out from time to time. To *my* dainty little nostrils (in fact, I have a nose like a lo-oo-ong ski jump, but let's not go there...), lantana smells exactly like tomcat piddle! Ah, my second favourite! $:-(( Aside: on the heritage 'White Gates' at Wallsend, they've planted a rambling hedge of purple and white lantana. The colours go perfectly with the pale I don't much like the hybrids. They have next to no perfume. I reckon the most difficult-to-eradicate weed *I've* ever encountered has been Jasmine! Once it takes hold, it takes *years* before you can get rid of it! I tackled one that was confined to overgrowing a fence. I sprayed all the foliage on one side with Roundup, and the kill was 100%. So satisfying to see a hedge of brown crispy leaves replace one of green and pink! The scent of a jasmine hedge right outside the kitchen is too overpowering even for me. The trouble comes when the jasmine has been allowed to spread over the ground, so that there are hundreds of small vines coming up everywhere. Get yourself a sheep, or else borrow one, they just love jasmine. -- John Savage (news address invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup) |
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'Eau de Lantana' was Kikuyu - EVIL!!
Mark wrote:
Interestingly............. We supplied the Wallsend Gates lantana plants.............under protest lol What!? What!? Who are 'we'??? And if you supplied the Wallsend Gates lantana 'under protest', what would you have preferred to supply? It's hard to imagine anything else looking as pretty as those colours do (remember: I'm a lantana-loather from 'way back!) A-aa-and... Since you're acquainted with Wallsend and environs, what do you think of the 'inspirational' street tree plantings? Are they really Magnolia grandifolia (Bullbay Magnolia - an exotic species) and if so, *why* on earth??? And whose idea was it to remove all the wonderful Moreton Bay figs along Cowper Street? Not a breath of a word to the public until *after* 150 years worth of trees had come down! 'They were diseased' said the Chamber of Commerce. I saw the felled trees before they were hauled away and they looked perfectly fine to me! Busting to know who 'we' are!!!! ;-D -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
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